He was appointed as Associate Professor of Pathophysiology in 1983 and Professor
of Internal Medicine in 1995, at Bologna University.
He was visiting professor at Haifa (Israel) and Würzburg (Germany) Universities
in 1984 and 1986.
He was director of the Postgraduate School in Sports Medicine, University
of Bologna (1990-1999) and the Istituto di Patologia Speciale Medica e Metodologia
Clinica, University of Bologna (1995-1996).
From November 1998, he is head of the unit Semeiotica Medica, Policlinico
S. Orsola-Malpighi, Bologna, and from November 2000 he is director of the
Department of Medicina Interna, Cardioangiologia, Epatologia, University of
Bologna.
He is member of the International, European and Italian Associations for the
Study of the Liver, the Italian Society of Internal Medicine, the International
Ascites Club and the International Association of Surgeons and Gastroenterologists.
Its main research activity field is hepatology, with particular interest in
virus-related liver diseases, hepatocellular carcinoma, liver transplantation
and, mainly, renal and hemodynamic disturbances in liver failure.
He has been frequently invited to held lectures at Italian and International
Meetings and is the co-author of about 450 full-lenght papers including over
160 papers which appeared in international peer-reviewed journals.